(DIPLOMACY) Text of the Proposed Charter of the United Natio

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(DIPLOMACY.) Text of the Proposed Charter of the United Nations, Including the Statute of the International Court of Justice. [2], 30 printed pages. 4to, staple-bound, 10½ x 8 inches; minor toning and tape remnants on front page, otherwise minimal wear. [San Francisco, CA?]: United Nations Conference on International Organization, 25 June 1945

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The scarce original draft of the founding document of the United Nations. 7 in OCLC and none traced at auction; dealer John Jenkins offered one for $350 in 1976.

With--"United Nations Conference on International Organization: Provisional List of Members of the Delegations and Officers of the Secretariat." [2], 70 pages. 12mo, 5½ x 4 inches, original printed wrappers; 2 small cello tape fragments on rear wrapper. San Francisco, CA, April 1945.

Program of "United Nations Theatre . . . Presentations at the San Francisco World Security Conference." 4 pages, 7½ x 5 inches, on one folding sheet, uncut; toning, minor cello tape stains at edges. 17-23 June [1945].

John Jacob Livingston, "Democracy, Dedicated to the Free Peoples of the World, in Memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt." Sheet music, 4 pages, 12 x 9 inches; moderate wear; inscribed by the composer. San Francisco, CA: United Nations Security Conference, 25 April 1945.

3 empty matchbook covers: one from "The Cirque at the Fairmont Hotel," San Francisco; and two from the "San Francisco Allied Nations World Security Conference," April 1945.